drax in # movies • 9 hours ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Safety Last! (1923)Harold Lloyd is considered one of the greatest comedians of silent Hollywood. His reputation, however, isn't as lofty as those of his contemporaries Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton, who were…drax in # movies • 22 hours ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, 1922)The 20th century produced many iconic arch-villains, both in real life and in fiction. Among the latter, one of the most famous—partly because it allegedly inspired the former—is the criminal…drax in # movies • yesterday • 4 min readFilm Review: Blood and Sand (1922)“What worked once should work again” was the guiding principle for Paramount Pictures when it decided to start production of Blood and Sand , 1922 silent melodrama directed by Fred Niblo, a film…drax in # movies • 2 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Häxan (The Witches, 1922)In the first decades of cinema, its forms weren't properly defined. This resulted in many of the great or important films looking like strange hybrids from today's perspective. One of the best known…drax in # movies • 3 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Robin Hood (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, 1922)Hollywood films a century ago lacked sound, colour and many things we now take for granted, but they were still grand. Some of that grandness can still be seen even today, especially in films that…drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Nanook of the North (1922)The earliest of all films were, by the broadest definition, documentaries. However, it took a long time for the word to enter vocabularies and the documentary got its proper form relatively late, at…drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Nosferatu (1922)Pablo Picasso allegedly said that "good artists copy and great artists steal". The adage, made popular by Steve Jobs in the 1990s, can be applied to the world of cinema. Dracula , a 1897 novel by…drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: The Indian Tomb (Das indische Grabmal, 1921)One could persuasively argue that cinema underwent its most profound transformation almost a century ago, when within less than a decade filmgoers were introduced to both sound and colour—a…drax in # movies • 6 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Orphans of the Storm (1921)Most filmmakers, at least those who care about politics, are left-wing. One of the rare exceptions who went in the opposite direction is David W. Griffith, giant of early cinema whose best known…drax in # movies • 7 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)Much of film-related debate today revolves around whether certain roles should be played by actors of specific gender, race or ethnicity. Such debates did not exist a century ago, with audiences…drax in # movies • 8 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, 1921)Selma Lagerlöf is the greatest name of 20th Century Swedish literature. Her reputation stems not only from the quality and influence of her work or the fact that she was the first woman to win the…drax in # movies • 8 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)One of the great ironies of cinema history can be found in the way Rudolph Valentino became a big star. The greatest icon of the silent era owed his status to a scene displaying his superb skill…drax in # movies • 9 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Three Musketeers (1921)Many critics and film scholars credit Douglas Fairbanks for setting the foundation of the swashbuckling genre in Hollywood by playing the titular protagonist of his 1920 hit The Mark of Zorro .…drax in # movies • 10 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Sheik (1921)Certain films that were made more than a century ago are impossible to make now, merely because certain details of their content would be absolutely unacceptable to certain very loud segments of…drax in # movies • 11 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Kid (1921)Sir Charles Chaplin is considered the most recognisable icon in the history of cinema. He achieved this by becoming the first truly global film star. This accomplishment owes much to silent cinema…drax in # movies • 11 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: The Golem: How He Came into the World ( Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, 1920)Germany is the birthplace of horror cinema. The person most likely to be viewed as its father is Paul Wegener, the actor and director whose 1913 silent film The Student of Prague is considered…drax in # movies • 12 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Way Down East (1920)If we are to compare Hollywood today with the Hollywood a century ago, we would notice that the biggest difference, apart from obvious technological issues like the lack of sound and colour, is the…drax in # movies • 12 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Mark of Zorro (1920)Douglas Fairbanks is one of the most iconic stars of silent Hollywood. He was a larger-than-life personality, known for his marriage to "America's sweetheart" Mary Pickford, which became Hollywood's…drax in # movies • 13 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 1920)Weimar Germany, despite economic woes and political turmoil, was fertile ground for the cinema industry. German films from the period became known worldwide for their thematic diversity, technical…drax in # movies • 14 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Madame DuBarry (Passion, 1919)Ernst Lubitsch enjoys the reputation of being one of the most legendary directors of Classic Hollywood, mainly built on his sophisticated comedies made in a style known as the "Lubitsch touch". Like…
